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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"community service learning"”.
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The Impact of Community Service-Learning on Student Development, as Perceived by Student Leaders
… have promoted the resurgence of student service linked with learning, but limited research exists on expectations or outcomes for these students or for the communities they serve. The literature review revealed that students' experiences of community service leadership had been a …
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Re-Engineering a Movement: Reclaiming Youth at Risk. An Assessment of Selected Outcomes of Community Service Learning Experiences in an Urban High School
… students who were involved in the experiential community service-learning program demonstrated positive and significant gains in the following areas: planning and career exploration behaviors, responsive attitudes toward others, competence to act upon the feeling of concern for others, feelings …
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The relationship between participation in community service-learning projects and personal and leadership life skills development in Louisiana high school 4-H leadership activities
… documents the effectiveness of Louisiana 4-H community service-learning projects. The purpose of this study is to compare self-reported perceptions of personal and leadership life skills development of Louisiana high school 4-H leadership activity participants by whether they participate in …
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Associations of Civic Attitudes in Service Learning
… advocacy through personal connections with the community. Service learning is an effective method of increasing citizenship participation and civic responsibility by incorporating community service activities with academic coursework. This study used survey research to examine the civic attitude …
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Implications of an experiential food and environment-related course for Chinese and other international students
… the University of Manitoba in the nearby rural community of Clearwater since 2006. The course is tremendously popular and about half of the students who have taken the course are international students, most of these from China. The goal of this research was to explore the implications of …
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Cultivating Compassion in Undergraduate College Students: Rhetoric or Reality?
… the information and methods about which they are learning to create positive social change has lagged. Aware of the magnitude of today's global issues and dissatisfied with the current disparity between the world's reality and university curricula, scholars have begun to re-imagine the role of …
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The relationship of service learning and college student development
… was to explore the relationship of the use of service learning in teaching and selected dimensions of college student development. The research was guided by the question, "To what extent do three levels of experience in community service, including participation with and without reflection …
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Team creative performance: exploring the relationship between team diversity and conflict affecting the creative productivity of interior design student teams
… effects on team creative productivity: team learning style diversity, student self-awareness, task conflict, process conflict, and relationship conflict. The case study incorporates 40 interior design students in teams of four, developing a design for a community service learning project. …
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Service learning today: The perceptions of teachers and service-learning professionals
<p>This study explores the experience of service learning in schools today. Guiding this inquiry was the question, “How do service-learning professionals approach, implement, and perceive service learning, and to what degree do these elements affect how they collaborate with others?” To this end, I …
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A qualitative case study exploring the expectancy and value of incorporating service learning in the Catholic independent school classroom as sources of motivation and empowerment for K-12 teachers.
… the expectancy and value of incorporating service learning in the Catholic independent school classroom as sources of motivation and empowerment for K–12 teachers. Participants were classroom teachers with experience in implementing and participating in service learning. Various perceived …
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Institutionalizing Service-Learning as a Best Practice of Community Engagement in Higher Education: Intra- and Inter-Institutional Comparisons of the Carnegie Community Engagement Elective Classification Framework
Service-learning, with a longstanding history in American higher education (Burkhardt & Pasque, 2005), includes three key tenets: superior academic learning, meaningful and relevant community service, and persistent civic learning (McGoldrick and Ziegert, 2002). The Carnegie Foundation for the …